Advisories as Cautions (Boeing airplanes)?
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Advisories as Cautions (Boeing airplanes)?
Have been looking at cockpit pictures of Boeing EICAS airplanes (777, 767, 747-400) and noticed that EICAS advisory messages are the same colour as caution messages. The only difference appears to be that advisories are indented a little bit (one space?) or have a sideways chevron in front of them '>'.
Does this confuse pilots? Other than when they first appear on the EICAS, is it difficult to tell them apart? Could you under-react to a caution (thinking it is an advisory), or over-react to an advisory (thinking it's a caution)?
Seems strange to have them the same color, font, etc. Does it get the thumbs up or down?
Any related comments appreciated.
Does this confuse pilots? Other than when they first appear on the EICAS, is it difficult to tell them apart? Could you under-react to a caution (thinking it is an advisory), or over-react to an advisory (thinking it's a caution)?
Seems strange to have them the same color, font, etc. Does it get the thumbs up or down?
Any related comments appreciated.
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Having flown B767s and B747-400 for many years I can say that I have never seen or heard of anyone mis-interpretting a "carreted" (>) message.
Reason being, you read what EICAS throws up at you.
The system has been very cleverly designed.
Reason being, you read what EICAS throws up at you.
The system has been very cleverly designed.
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Another way to help distinguish between the two, (apart from chevron/indent and reading the text as to what is wrong):
Advisories have no master caution aural warning, as cautions have.
Warnings have, of course, master warning aural alert.
On classics, there is no EICAS, so not a problem there :-)
Advisories have no master caution aural warning, as cautions have.
Warnings have, of course, master warning aural alert.
On classics, there is no EICAS, so not a problem there :-)
